Saturday, April 27, 2019

A few Reddit posts for syndication (and why the IRS commissioner lacks integrity)

To classify these corrupt individuals requires both precision and integrity. The current IRS commissioner obviously has neither integrity nor precision; if he did, Trump would have been arrested
already. Trump's son-in-law, too.

Mobsters are Bullies

The key word here is "Bully". Does your landlord or HOA bully you?

On The Homeless Crisis

... lots of them preach: blame the addicts. Certain sects of religious
zealots do this a lot: Blame the sick people for being sick in a society
that is literally and figuratively poisoning them. They say they want
to help by putting them in temporary housing (rentals).

But does that help? No.

Meanwhile... oh, nevermind the burgeoning population of "landlords"
profiting on on their illness, profiting on fake rehab centers designed
to steal the government funds allocated to help these sick people.
There's a reason Utah has so many failed rehabs and corrupt nonprofits.

The homelessness crisis is not due to drugs; it's due to greed of
landlords, period. Landlords are addicts too; but their fix is rental
income. They will destroy their communities and society at large before
admitting any wrong though.

People cannot get healthy when they are constantly pushed into
decaying, unhealthy environments (this includes low-income rental
housing). Furthermore is gerrymandering of people once they are nudged
into those less than ideal places: effectively take away their vote by
jacking the rents and forcing them to move so often they can't ever get attached to any community
that can help them.

The problem is society has made it way too easy to turn everything
into a rental: rent your Ubers, rent an AirBnB, rent or subscribe to a
thing monthly for this or that. ... this creates incentive for people to
hoard rentals (rental income), which to me is so obviously the source
of most problems rearing their ugly heads in the last decade.

Almost 100 percent of the corruption in the US has a strong link to real estate "property management".
The US could close its deficits, get all homeless off the streets,
and reduce rentership from over 60 percent to < 20 percent if only it
would punish-tax these corrupt Republicans what they should be punished
for their real estate "deals".

Property management is not a job, and income earned from collecting
rents or leases should not be given any breaks or leniency from the IRS.

Of course, every time
these truths are pointed out, there emerges some haughty whiner whining
about how rough and tough it is managing renters. "Of course it's a
job!" they complain. No, it's not a job.

Some more history to back up the facts, as they've been documented extensively for over a decade.

Collecting rent checks and taking them to the bank is not a job.

That
IS what most PMCs do. They devise long, complex "contracts" and try to
absolve themselves from any liability for "providing" uninhabitable
"housing". To "maintain" the properties, they pay peon minimum wage
"handymen" (usually illegals or addicts they can intimidate into being
quiet), often under the table, to do the grunt work cleaning or putting
the lipstick on pigs, ripping out cheap carpet and replacing it with
even cheaper carpet so they "justify" stealing the security deposits.

It
is not a business when you do shit under the table. For tax reasons,
most REALTORS and LANDLORDS do all kinds of shit under the table. THIS
is what the IRS needs to go after. Trump is trying his best to make it
so people who do this are not in trouble (because it is literally how he
made his "fortune").

A decade or so ago, I was being held hostage (yeah, sort of hyperbole, but not really; it's a long story) to work for a PMC
designing an Internet site for some new high-end villa condo development
in San Jose. (As a side note: they later stole my code, removed my CSS
copyright, and sold dozens of units thanks to my work, for over 600K
each.)

I'll also mention that all I could afford to
live in after working for them was a literal slum in Mountain View: a
dirt floor garage infested with California's nastiest spiders and other
disgusting insects. Totally illegal slumlord stuff!

They
also used me as a temporary "secretary" because, hey any time you can
get a woman to do min wage work you should totally exploit her as much
as possible when she's desperate! And as this "secretary", another thing
they made me do for this "job" was spam Craigslist, posting their fancy
rentals. Silly valley elite would come in the office with checks made
out to "[PMC] Trust" 5000+ dollars for rent and rent deposits (yes, 10
years ago). Vilest pieces of shit. The PMC in downtown Palo Alto run by Mormons, of course.

Definitely
lots of Mormons going into the Black Hole of Doom. It's my theory that
what "religion" you say you won't matter: everybody "associated"
(even tangentially) with the sustaining the Realtor cartel (NAR), PMCs (property management
companies AKA landlords) and others who do collect or think it's their "right" to collect
rents (even temporary AirBnB rents!), will be right in the middle of it
with Donald Trump's MAGA team. Donnie's followers will never have to be without Donnie! They are probably so thrilled.

That must be one of the reasons the Black Hole was made visible to us here on Earth: thank goodness for Science to show us where the bad guys all end up.